“What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and the other supplies facts, and the British are traditionally empiricists so they/we have a resistance to theory and to theoreticians playing too prominent a role in public life.”

English writer, journalist, political commentator and broadcaster

Will Self is an English writer, journalist, political commentator and broadcaster. He is known for his fiction and nonfiction work, and for a career that spans novels, shorter fiction, novellas and essays. He has written 11 novels, five collections of shorter fiction, three novellas and nine collections of non-fiction writing. He is also an honorary Professor at Brunel University London, where his interests include psychogeography.